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Won Song of the Year Grammy in 1973 and album. 1 for six weeks, propelling First Take, which had lingered low, to the top of the charts. In early 1972, Atlantic released it as a single and it went to No. Nothing happened until 1971 when Clint Eastwood’s directorial debut, Play Misty for Me, featured it uncut (a rarity for a long song in a movie) in a steamy romantic interlude featuring him and Donna Mills. She eventually recorded it for her 1969 debut on Atlantic, First Take, in a spare, slowed-to-a-crawl, sensual/mournful reading. Flack taught it to her middle school glee club students and it was a highlight during her long term residency at Mr. Leace is the one who introduced her to Ewan MacColl’s “ The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” via a weirdly upbeat version by the folk duo Joe & Eddie (their’s, called “ The First Time,” came out in 1963).

Leace had a long-time relationship with Roberta Flack, who was his vocal coach for five years, as both were teaching in the DC public school system.

In 2000, Leace was named to the Washington Area Music Awards Hall of Fame and in 2003 to Washingtonian Magazine’s Washington Music Hall of Fame.

When the school later became the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Leace taught theater and speech and was chair of the drama department.

At DC’s Western High School, Leace first taught English.

Graduated Howard, and earned graduate degrees from George Washington University (theater) and Georgetown (library studies).

During the folk boom, Leace was earning $250 a week at the Shadows, a “ huge sum” at the time.

Leace - who split a live album with Carol Hedin recorded in 1962 at the Shadows (predecessor to the Cellar Door) where he started out (along with Charlie Byrd’s Showboat Lounge in Adams Morgan at 18th & Columbia) - would record at least two other albums, including Donal Leace in 1972 and Leace on Life in 1992.

July 1964 issue – “ Capitol Doings – Washington Folk Scene“ In fact, he for many years lived in an apartment above the club and was a frequent, sometimes last-minute, opening act for many touring acts (and opened for many of them on tour as well). According to Harrington, who knew Leace as a friend since the late 1960s, Donal came here in 1960 to attend Howard University, earning income in the burgeoning folk scene centered around the Cellar Door.Donal was much loved in the community for his gentle nurturing spirit, supple singing and spirited performance.Leace has a deep DC history, initially as a popular folk musician and songwriter in the ’60s and early ’70s (he kept performing well into the early 2000s) and later as a long-time educator at DC’s Duke Ellington School of the Arts.

Donal Leace passed away Sunday at 81 in Texas due to Covid-19 after some long-term health issues.

Richard Harrington graciously shared his own research notes about Donal Leace to help ensure this information is distributed to the widest possible audience: Unfortunately, today’s post threatens to undo all the positive momentum, as a result of the misguided decision to unfurl a new guitar arrangement of the “ Midnight Cowboy” theme by Silver Spring-based music duo, Dubble Trubble.ĭub-inspired pop fusion (or so it says in their press packet), this take on John Barry‘s haunting soundtrack theme may one day end up as the title track of the duo’s debut collection - Twelve O’Clock Cowboys - of late-night sounds ( streaming audio link) : To help generate buzz for this article (entitled “ Sing a Song of Cincinnati“) in the magazine’s December issue, I rolled out my Top Ten on Zero to 180’s Facebook page one song per day (beginning December 1st), with supplemental historical details not previously disclosed.

Furthermore, for this piece, I was invited to contribute a 500-word sidebar of my Top Ten Cincinnati songs - such a marvelous birthday gift!. Several months ago, I received a surprise phone call from writer, Steve Rosen, who informed me that he was putting together a feature article for Cincinnati Magazine that uses my “ Cincinnati in Song” piece as a launching point.